The Risk of Belonging to Bureaucratized Evangelical Christian Groups: A Path to Mental Health and Spiritual LiberationEl Riesgo de Pertenecer a Grupos Cristianos Evangélicos Burocratizados: Un Camino Hacia La Salud Mental y La Libertad Espiritual

This article sought to explore the integration of Argentine relational psychoanalysis and Christianity, the life of Christ, in order to understand why spiritual formation alone does not create a full Christian life. Firstly, this question will be answered using my own experiences, as a way to understand the factors that led to an epistemological break in my worldview. Subsequently, a further example is provided through a clinical case outlining a patient’s intercultural struggles as she navigated belongingness within the Evangelical Christian church. Adopting methodology based on Marcos Bernard’s relational group psychology, the patient was able to move away from the role of exclusion assigned to her by her family system. As a result, her sense of identity within the Evangelical Christian church was transformed away from rigidity and dependency towards greater mental health and spiritual freedom.